Experts at Hold Security firm discovered a Russian group of hackers that collected 1.2B stolen credentials obtained in different data breaches worldwide. The experts believe that the data was collected from the numerous data breaches occurred all over the world in the last months and that hit around 420,000 websites. The bad actors who collected the amazing amount of data appears to be based in south central Russia, according to the expert also added that the cyber criminals do not seem to be connected to any government as speculated in the past by many security experts.”]
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